DENVER -- Murder and kidnapping charges have been filed in a dragging-death case in Colorado.

The man accused of dragging a woman to her death behind his vehicle was formally charged in Douglas County District Court, Colo., on Monday.

Jose Luis Rubi-Nava, 36, was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, two counts of forgery of a government issued document and one count of possession of a forged instrument. <TABLE class=storyAd cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=storyAdObj>

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In a courtroom packed with spectators and journalists, Rubi-Nava sat quietly in a red jail jumpsuit, listening to the judge through an interpreter. He said little and spoke only to his public defender and Spanish interpreter.

Rubi-Nava's younger brother, Victor Rubi-Nava, was also in the courtroom and told reporters that his brother is a good man and not capable of the crime. Victor Rubi-Nava said that he has never even seen his older brother in a fight.

Meanwhile, officials announced that the state victim's compensation funds and the Mexican government will pay for the return of the victim, Luz Marie Franco Fierros, to Mexico. She was from the town of Chilpancingo, the capital of the state of Guerrero, and was the mother of four children. Mexican authorities identified the woman based upon her fingerprints, which were matched to voting records.

The Colorado victim-compensation fund will pay although Franco Fierros was an illegal immigrant. Officials noted this money does not come from tax dollars but from payments by convicted criminals.

Fierros was in the U.S. to earn money to finish paying for a house in Mexico, the Rocky Mountain News reported in its Monday editions. Donations in memory of Fierros can be made at any Wells Fargo bank. The money be used to help her family keep their house in Mexico.

Franco Fierros was Rubi-Nava's girlfriend. Roommates said they had a very volatile relationship, but that Rubi-Nava was always the calm one. Rubi-Nava is accused of tying a towrope around her neck and dragging her for more than a mile along a road near Denver. She was alive when this occurred, the coroner said.

Her body was so bloody and badly mangled that the homeowner who found her laying on the street near his house didn't know if the victim had been a man or a woman. A photograph found near her body ultimately led to Rubi-Nava, who was pictured in the the photo.

Rubi-Nava's next court hearing is Sept. 28. His attorneys are expected to ask for a gag order in the case.

He is being held without bond.

If he is found guilty of first-degree murder, he faces the death penalty.